A few more thoughts about this. I religiously avoid repeated text, but when I think about how many words I lose as a result, I don’t think it’s huge. Maybe 1 in 5 words tops would be repeated if I didn’t use gosubs to avoid it. So that’d be an inflation of like 100K on Magics. It would look big both before and after cleanup.
The other thought is, it takes a pretty long time to write a lot of words, and CoG doesn’t really have a lot to gain by casting suspicion on particular works or the metric, so can’t we just look at that hard work and say rah rah yay?
I think we can. Yay!